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CO2 reduction to the level of formylmethanofuran in Methanosarcina barkeri is non-energy driven when CO is the electron donor.
FEMS microbiology letters - 1 Jun 2004
Stojanowic Alexander, Hedderich Reiner
Abstract excerpt
A Methanosarcina barkeri mutant lacking Ech hydrogenase does not catalyze CH(4) formation from H(2)/CO(2) since, as was shown previously, the energy-driven reduction of CO(2) to formylmethanofuran by H(2) is blocked. CH(4) formation by this mutant could be restored in the presence of CO or pyruvate. Furthermore, CH(4) formation from H(2)/CO(2) plus CO by the Deltaech mutant was not inhibited by the protonophore...
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